Reread Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
Rereading the Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo brings us to a number of considerations.
The first consideration that the novel is an 'adventure of the soul as the author notes in the finale when it introduces its psycho-analysis and makes his points.
This is a novel in first person, which could be the story of the life of the protagonist, Zeno Cosini, and a series of episodes recounted in a greater whole. It is an adventure of the soul because the story always has a deep psychological look, that is a story of reflections the protagonist and his feelings in relation to his feelings, but without going into an analysis never boring and exasperated, is a show that always tries to be as simple as possible and to experience the feelings of the protagonist in the world around him.
Consciousness is just the story of the feelings experienced and how the protagonist has tried them in relation to the outside world, his affections, his loves, his vices.
The second consideration that in all the way there is a big smile, a sly look and good-natured, a pleasure to live in the story that moves irrepressibly and even under the most difficult, is not ostentatious merriment by force, instead it is the desire to face reality and not to flee in terror, is the courage to live the daily peeks at some point in the pages of the novel and the protagonist, a man who is not always a very capable and not always very practical, but in the end always comes out the winner over a world too competitive to a scenario of permanent war, a scenario that eventually makes its way into bullying the First World War and the considerations on the author's ability to self-destruction of humanity and man with the bomb in his hand that destroys the planet.
The third consideration, but not too personal, is that the novel should be considered from the end, last chapter on psycho-analysis on the events of the protagonist and his analyst and then gradually start on, as if the author wanted to tell his adventures of the soul in a psycho-analytic framework, or at least the 'He tells the whole story, referring back to key moments of their lives or memories of particular importance. On the other hand in his brief preface the medical psychoanalyst, Dr. S., decides to publish the script for Revenge of the patient who has left her care and tried to cheat him of his time and his amazing therapeutic interventions. And in the short preamble, the protagonist himself is linked to the recommendations of the doctor to write down the memories that come from dreams but it feels that much gli sfugge, anche se gli sembra di aver ricordato di quando era in fasce, di essersi rivisto quasi neonato, e si mette a fare raccomandazioni a quel bimbetto che gli è riapparso, sulle difficoltà di sfuggire alle malattie e sulle difficoltà dei rapporti.
Una quarta considerazione è che il romanzo è l’esame di una ricerca psico-analitica ed insieme una critica della psico-analisi che viene messa in luce come un tentativo terapeutico però senza troppe pretese e soprattutto che non si sa su quali basi scientifiche poggi. Da considerare che il romanzo è del 1923 e che la psico-analisi dovrebbe essere ancora in fasce ma evidentemente ha avuto già straordinari sviluppi, perché viene esaminata con cura e ogni critica is very thorough and precise and the novel seems to have been written fifty or even ninety years later.
The novel is divided into six chapters.
In the first, entitled the smoke, the protagonist tells his smoking habit and how many times to no avail himself has vowed to quit smoking and how to find notes in many of his memories with us in writing, which means last cigarette because he committed himself in the attempt, it failed. It tells of a time I tried making himself admitted to a nursing home where he is entrusted to the care and supervision of indefinable age a little woman, between forty and sixty, named John. And his talks with Joan, always carried out in an attempt to corrupt it. And how in the end drunk together with Joan, which softened the wine's rains in the room 11 cigarettes in Hungary. And how at one point he thought that the doctor could have a good time with his wife and he felt the irresistible impulse to return home to check and how he left the clinic to go home.
The second chapter, entitled "the death of my father," born from an event that recalls the event with the usual notation "date, my father's death, U.S.." (Last cigarette). The protagonist tells his father's last period of his illness, as his father's death has the hit, and everything is tied to a sense of guilt, the fact that the doctor is strongly recommended not to tire and keep it in bed, he obeyed almost blindly to the doctor and nurse and that kept him in strength in bed, in which the father had a rebellion but rather a time of extreme vitality that was the last and he raised his hand against his face and struck him and then fell to the ground, dead. This left the bewildered protagonist, which enriches the story with his academic failures, its passage from one faculty to another, the comments of her father, calling him the nickname by which the University, and the guilt and anger with to the doctor who had recommended to force him to fill the bed part of a series of memories of some value, and enrich the soul of this journey of the protagonist who wanders through memories.
In the third chapter, the story of my marriage, the protagonist tells her story with Malfenti sisters, Ada, Alberta and Augusta, and how he fell in love with Ada, she was always rejected. and then he tried with Alberta, with the same result and his dislike for Guido, that at some point enters the home and was immediately greeted with great respect for his ability to play the violin and its attempt to compete with him musically successful in a disaster, and held séances by Guido that he tried to take the table by moving around in the dark. It recounts these events with taste and all that they did fall into the arms of Augusta, the least beautiful of the three sisters, but in the end will prove a capable wife and above all a loving companion.
In chapter four, wife and lover, talking about his love for Carla, a rather unfortunate that the girl was introduced by a friend who was very ill and died, and of which he fell in love, so much to look for a singing teacher, who then take away his love and marry her.
In the fifth chapter, The Story of a trade association, said the commercial company that put together he and Guido, a deal that throw themselves to buy copper sulphate, the office life and the beautiful Carmen, who had given a joyful boat ride, then the evil that takes hold of Ada, the wife of Guido of Graves' disease on which runs a long joke, then the crisis of Guido, his way of trying to make personal gains, the death of Guido suicide that is sure to save him but for a series of unfortunate circumstances dies. And the fact that Zeno for a terrible mistake to follow in another car funeral and realizing it too late.
In chapter six, the end of psychoanalysis, the author talks about his decision to end the psychoanalytic therapy because after 6 months did not notice any improvement, the situation is even worse than before. E 'War broke out, but in the city (Trieste) get bored more than before. For the past year has not written anything, has now decided to move closer to the dear sheets and write the story of his care., Because the disease was finally discovered, the author speaks of the Oedipus complex, is the evil that it combines Oedipus in rivalry with his father and love for his mother. Dr. S. wants to keep his writing and the confirmation that the therapy has earned him strong emotions. To which the author recalls the emotions received and compare with May roses, images that ran behind and at one point had the impression to achieve, but then realizes that his inventions, creations, with whom he lives. The doctor recorded the images and reported the author for young children, then the school, which was accompanied by a maid, Kate, while his brother remained at home happy, and this was an image that is repeated often, Kate who accompanied him seemed increasingly old, then gradually realized that his brother envied him because he went to school. Another memory is a white room, his brother asked him the spoon, he asks a little of its sugar sparking the ire of Cathleen. The images disappear, reappear sunny, he is small and plays under the table, to a certain clings to the point of underwear and a bottle of ink drops from the table and goes to the head and finirgli stain her dress, underwear, skirt and pants mom's dad. The images they go, with regret on his part. It tells of another interview with Dr. S., who remembers him and sees the child away a cage, inside which there is a woman, blonde and shapely, and her desire to eat. And the doctor asks if her mother was blonde and buxom and he tells him so, that the grandmother was not. Now he felt healed, and the doctor confirmed that he was a convalescent who had not yet been used to living without a fever. And in the next interview simulates a dream that feeds the foot the woman pictured in a cage. But he realizes that the images slowly disappeared and were not. I think I made a major scientific discovery on the colors and how to perceive them. And confident confides in Dr. S., who says he has the retina more sensitive to effects of nicotine, and then start smoking again disappointed as a turkish. In the end, decides to consult his general practitioner, Dr Paul, and ask advice on psycho-analysis. But then does not have the courage and then you go and that makes the analysis of urine. And he is convinced now that they have diabetes and speaks with his wife who bursts into tears. But after a few hours, Dr. Paul calls on the phone and informed him that there is no trace of sugar in his urine. Law celebrated the work of Dr. Beard on neurasthenia. Skip
together with his family two days of vacation in Lucinico. If he goes to meditate in the river es'imbatte in Teresina, a farmer who knows that for many years and has grown. Try to touch it but that takes it around. The war is now advancing. The family moved to Turin, he ventures in the fields and runs into a patrol of Austrian soldiers who threaten him and then they take back by a soldier who asked him about the war on which both are questioning but can not answer. And the novel ends with the uncertainty that is driving the war and with the thought a man carrying a bomb that exploded in his face strikingly for the entire planet.
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